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      • Journal of Conchology Volume 44, Part 4, October 2022
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      • Journal of Conchology Volume 39, Part 2, November 2006
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      • Issue 1
        • Collecting East African marine snails
        • Field meeting to Box Hill
        • Introduction
        • Oyster Catchers feeding on Patella vulgata
      • Issue 2
        • Collecting localities in the Cape Province
        • Field meeting Walton-on-Naze
        • Herons, Moorhens and Rats feeding on Anodonta anatina
        • Introduction to molluscan taxonomy 1) Species and subspecies
        • Volutes
      • Issue 3
        • Introduction to molluscan taxonomy 2) The significance of types
        • Land and freshwater snails: additions to the British List since 1926
        • Littoral collecting in the Scilly Isles
        • Snails in a Sussex garden
      • Issue 4
        • Biographical Note
        • Introduction to molluscan taxonomy 3) The genus
        • Learning in Nucella lapillus
        • Mollusca on Liverpool bomb sites
        • The Cardiacea
        • The Strombidae
      • Issue 5
        • A suggested method for extracting the animals from small high-spired shells
        • Commensual crabs in Mytilus edulis
        • Field meeting at Shell Bay, Dorset
        • Field meeting at West Runton and Overstrand
        • Introduction to molluscan taxonomy 4) Taxonomic history
        • J.G. Bruguiere 1750-98
      • Issue 6
        • A little more biography
        • Field meeting at Amberley
        • Field meeting to Grasswood, Yorkshire May 1962
        • Marine collecting in New Zealand
        • Marine mollusca of Carnac, Brittany
        • On the use and misuse of common names
        • Strand shells after Cornish gales
        • Trochus magus in the Isle of Wight
      • Issue 7
        • 35 years collecting
        • Field meeting Epping Forest
        • Field meeting White Downs
        • More strand shells after Cornish gales
        • Natural History Museum at Craster
        • Notes on the pholadidae
      • Issue 8
        • Field meeting at Norwich
        • Geology for conchologists - Introduction
        • Geology for conchologists - The last 15,000 years
        • The Strophocheilidae
      • Issue 9
        • More autobiography
        • Sinistrorsity
        • Some etymology
        • Systematics sewn up
      • Issue 10
        • Field meeting at Norbury Park
        • Papers for students
        • Rearing snails from the egg
      • Issue 11
        • David Landsborough
        • Field meeting at Albury
        • Field meeting at Leith Hill
        • Posting living mollusca
        • Snails extinct in England but living abroad
        • Still more autobiography
        • The Viviparidae
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    Radix auricularia
    Radix balthica
    Radix ovata
    Radix peregra
    Radix rubiginosa
    Ranella olearium
    Raphitoma boothii
    Raphitoma echinata
    Raphitoma linearis
    Raphitoma purpurea
    Retigyra millipunctata
    Retusa obtusa
    Retusa obtusa var. lajonkaireana
    Retusa obtusa var. turrita
    Retusa truncatula
    Retusa truncatula var. mammillata
    Retusa umbilicata
    Retusa umbilicata var. nitidula
    Rhinodiaphana ventricosa
    Rhizorus acuminatus
    Rhodope veranii
    Rhomboidella prideaux
    Rhopalomenia aglaopheniae
    Rissoa guerinii
    Rissoa interrupta
    Rissoa labiosa
    Rissoa lilacina
    Rissoa lilacina porifera
    Rissoa lilacina rufilabrum
    Rissoa membranacea
    Rissoa membranacea var. cornea
    Rissoa membranacea var. gracilis
    Rissoa membranacea var. labiosa
    Rissoa membranacea var. octona
    Rissoa parva
    Rissoella diaphana
    Rissoella globularis
    Rissoella opalina
    Rossia glaucopsis
    Rossia macrosoma
    Rossia palpebrosa
    Rossia sublaevis
    Rostanga rubra
    Roxania utriculus
    Rugulina fragilis
    Rumina decollata
    Runcina coronata
    Runcina ferruginea
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